On Monday afternoon, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. sent Baseball Twitter into a frenzy. This isn’t exactly anything new. The incredibly talented Blue Jays prospect has been lighting up social media for weeks now with his exploits on the field, as he’s absolutely bulldozed Double-A pitching in his brief first taste of the level. Guerrero currently sports a video game-like .397/.447/.645 slash line at the level, numbers accrued despite the fact that he is by far the youngest player in the Eastern League. Numbers so good, in fact, that it’s entirely plausible the Blue Jays might be on the verge of calling him straight up to the big leagues already, at the tender age of 19.

And for a few enthralling minutes on Monday, thanks to a now deleted Instagram post from Vlad Jr. himself, it sure seemed like that might be the case.

The implications seemed obvious. There was young Vlad, posing with his luggage, no teammates around him, in an Instagram picture tagged as...